Yesterday I went to the London Film and Comic Con. To save time, here are the highlights in picture form:
All of the pictures can be found here: http://supermatt.net/Pictures/viewr.php?album=LondonFilmAndComicCon
Today I have to congratulate NVidia on a job well botched. When I joined my current company, I knew there was a problem with my roaming profile – it’s quite obvious when you have two windows boxes not sharing the same desktop. I tried everything I could think of to try to get my profile working. I changed paths in the registry to point my home directory to the server, I made sure all the permissions were set correctly, I had even got to the point where I was considering rebuilding my LDAP entry. But before that, I figured I should at least try my account on a different box. I logged into my VM (which I normally use under a different name so I have administrator access to everything) and found that anything saved to the desktop was actually put back onto the server when I logged off – just like it should.
A quick google search revealed that people with NVidia graphics cards and the latest drivers installed were experiencing the problem. It was to do with the NVidia control panel that you have no option but to install when you install the drivers. What’s happening is this:
When you log into your machine it runs the control panel (or some drivers relating to it) under your username. When you go to log out of Windows, the control panel refuses to let go of your profile, so it stays open all the time, despite you not being logged into it. Because of this, Windows is unable to save your profile onto the server.
The next headache the comes when you try to remove the control panel. I found the control panel in the two logical places – msconfig and services.msc. Great I thought: remove it from start-up in msconfig and tell the service not to start up on boot. Thing is, the service would always start up on boot even if I tell it to disable, and the service would check the start-up, notice I’d disabled the program and re-enable it. Holy Malware BatMan!
So it came to this: registry keys had to be deleted. They were:
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Services\NVSv
and
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINES\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Run\NvCpl
With all of these gone, all of a sudden the roaming profile started working and was happily saving all my files to the server as I logged out.
So if you’re running a business with roaming profiles, do yourself a favour: buy ATI.
I’ve been meaning to upload this for a long time now:
http://www.supermatt.net/Music
And now it’s done I feel a great weight has been lifted. It’s actually that useful, but if you want to know what music I have, well you can look at it right there.
Ok, so according to my iPod, this is the list of albums which I own that came out this year. This does not include older albums which I purchased this year. No no.
Amy MacDonald - This Is The Life
Arctic Monkeys - Favourite Worst Nightmare
The Chemical Brothers - We Are The Night
Coheed & Cambria - Good Apollo, I’m Burning Star IV, Vol. 2: No World For Tomorrow
Dream Theater - Systemic Chaos
Foo Fighters - Echoes, Silence, Patience & Grace
Ghosts - The World Is Outside
The Good, The Bad & The Queen - The Good, The Bad & The Queen
Hard-Fi - Once Upon A Time In The West
The Hoosiers - The Trick To Life
Kaiser Chiefs - Yours Truly, Angry Mob
Kanye West - Graduation
The Killers - Sawdust
KT Tunstall - Drastic Fantastic
Manic Street Preachers - Send Away the Tigers
Mumm-Ra - These Thing Move In Threes
Neal Morse - Sola Scriptura
Newton Faulkner - Hand Built By Robots
Night Wish - Dark Passion Play
Plain White T’s - Every Second Counts
Porcupine Tree - Fear of a Blank Planet
Robert Planet & Alison Krauss - Raising Sand
Rush - Snakes & Arrows
Scouting For Girls - Scouting For Girls
Travis - The Boy With No Name
The View - Hats Off To The Buskers
Right, so I guess the question is: Which is my favourite?
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My view of a MacBook, 3 days after purchase, from the perspective of a Vista lover:
Bear with me, this is a long one
I did it. I finally managed to get the RSS feed working. It was one of those eureka moments I had just as my head hit my pillow last night. PHP’s handling of XML documents has a lot to be desired, but I managed to convince it to do what I wanted. Why can’t someone write good libraries?
Ok, so it’s Christmas shopping day today. Heading out to Canterbury with my ladies from work. We wanted to go on a road trip and they decided on the one place I visit most often. Oh well. Also, I’m going with three girls so I’m just going to be dragged around the girly shops and not get a chance to go anywhere I want. But at least I won’t be sitting here all day.
See this? This is the real first post, not that bit down there.
Ok, not much to see here, but that’s fine. I know what I’m going to do with this. Grab the rss feed, write some php that displays it on the front page and then have a link to the actual blog page. Nice and simple.
All I have to do is tackle PHPs XML libraries. *sighs*
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